San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-29

Sorley. "But this seems 10 be kind Of a
place where they make ashes Of dead people,"
said Mrs MacSorley, INSTEAD Of burying
them" That's Just exactly it," said Mac
Sorley, "a 100 pound columbiad gun makes
hashes of all the people that gets in its way,
and they can't find enough Of 'em TO bury
'em. That's what it is; a Columbarium."
HE DOESN'T EXACTLY CATCH ON.
Something or other, we can't say just
what, but something in the little editorial
note, makes me think that a new man has
taken hold of The Nevada Waterman: 1.-THE
delay in the appearance of The Watchman
this week is due to the fact that our wife and
myself took little trip to the county seat,
where we were detained by heavy rains flood
ing the streams and carrying away bridges.
The bridge at Hunters Forks was gone, so
leaving our better half at Neighbor Paddock's
we came on by myself In time to get out this
weeks edition only two days late" He has
the tune pretty well, but he gets the words
little mixed.
THE uNFAILING SIGN.
All, hal what do we heart From every
city, town and hamlet Except Henry Irving's)
comes the rallying cry: "The people; not the
politicians" All, yes; this is the sign that
the politicians have about completed their
states, and are getting ready 10 pack the con-
ventions and adopt things spontaneously"
EVEN JUSTICE.
People rejoice in the conviction Of Jacob
Sharp, because it seems to the ordinary mind
that the tempter certainly deserves punish
ment along with the tempted People don't
like to see the little rascals punished while the
great rascalS escape. And yet It has always
gone hard with the transgressor. Adam was
expelled from Eden because he was bribed to
disobedience with handful of fruit, while
the devil went right on having as good a time
as ever; better, indeed, for the devil Esau,
who sold bis birthright, lost his fathers bless
ing, and Jacob, whose other name at that
time might have been Sharp, gained every
thing by taking advantage of his brothers
weakness So, once in long time, people
like to see the fellows who operate the market
squeezed till they howl. 1t pleases people. 1t
doesn't draw on their sympathies, and tends
to reconcile the other convicts to their fate
When a man banks his shins by falling
through defective cellar grating, nothing
pleaSes him more or spreads more healing
balm upon his abrasions than to see the owner
of the property break his neck in the same
coal hole.
THE DAY WE DO NOT CELEBRATE
One broiling day in hot July,
John Adams said, long years gone by,
'This day, that makes people free.
Will be the peoples jubilee;
"With games, guns, sports and shows displayed,
With bells, pomp, bOnfres and parade,
"O'er all this land, from shore to shore,
From this time forth forever more"
The years passed on and by and by,
Mems hearts grew cold In hot July.
And one New England mayor said,
"Of rockets am sore afraid;
And whose sends one up ablaze,
I'll send him up for twenty days"
Then said the Mayor ODay McQuade,
"Thayre w no made fur no perade."
And Mayor Hans Won Schwartzenmeysr,
Proclaimed "I'll hat me no bonfier"
Said Mayor Baptiste Raphael,
mo make-aring-a data bell"
by gar" said Mayor jean crapand,
"Zis July games will has to go'
And Mayor Knud Christofferrssonn
Cried, "Djeath to him who fires gjunnl''
At last said Mayor Wun Lung See,
TOO muchee hoop-la bobbereer
And so the Yankee holiday
In 1900 passed away.
Brooklyn Eagle